Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE
1012-1/9/44 (West side)
22/03/83 Devon Lodge and forecourt plinth and
piers

GV II

Purpose-built Freemason's Lodge. Date 1867.
MATERIALS: squared Devon limestone rubble with cream freestone
dressings, crested slate roofs.
STYLE: Gothic Revival (Middle Pointed).
PLAN: rectangular plan in 2 blocks.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 2-window range to the front. Main
block has a forward-facing gable. The front and right return
are articulated by off-set buttresses rising from the plinth
up to a moulded off-set sill string course. A wrought-iron
Mason's star on a stone finial is over an elongated quatrefoil
window to the apex; paired 2-light plate-tracery leaded
windows with quatrefoils between the lights, hoodmoulds and
weathered sills; the sill string course rises at the centre
over 2 stone plaques inscribed "Devon Lodge" and "1867 A.D."
flanking a central buttress; entrance in a coped wall to the
left has a shouldered arch over a planked door with an
integral overlight.
Right return of the main block has exposed rafter ends and 4
leaded trefoil windows. The central buttress rises to the
eaves.
Transverse rear block, gabled with wide eaves, has one large
4-light plate-glass mullioned and transomed window with
chamfered arrises under a cream brick shallow pointed arch.
Set into the plinth of the rear block are 3 small shallow
pointed-arched windows with C20 glazing. Between the two
blocks is a lower connecting range with a tall planked door
with a pointed overlight set almost one metre up the wall.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a coped revetment wall to the forecourt
has 2 gate piers to the left and one pier to the right-hand
corner of squared Devon limestone with stepped pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SX8633471244

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548507

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990